I dunno what happened over the past few days to make the UFC turn it’s heavyweight plan on it’s head, but something did. They just scrapped the Shane Carwin / Cain Velasquez title shot eliminator and have fast tracked Shane Carwin for a title shot against Brock Lesnar at UFC 106 in November. Shane Carwin - Image: Fight! Magazine Carwin made the cut, and Cain Velasquez gets thrown back for more seasoning: He’ll be fighting Ben Rothwell at UFC 104 now. In a way, this works out nicely. Carwin is a better stylistic match against Lesnar … he knocks people out in thunderous fashion and Brock Lesnar’s chin is still a mystery – at least in mixed martial arts. We’ve all seen him land on his head in pro wrestling... [Read more]

Chuck Liddell will be trading in the five ounce gloves for some dancing shoes as he prepares to show a different kind of footwork on the latest season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. The show premieres on Monday, September 21st at 8pm, and this season will feature the Iceman as one of the celebrity dancers. Chuck Liddell - Image: Zuma Press This won’t be Chuck’s first time on the show. Several seasons ago, his then-girlfriend (or whatever he calls the many beautiful women he’s involved with at any given time) Willa Ford was a contestant and ABC did a little segment on her ‘good friend’ (wink wink) Chuck and the UFC. So as strange as this news is, it really isn’t all that surprising. I’m still... [Read more]

It only took one round for Cris ‘Cyborg’ Santos to defeat Gina Carano and claim the Strikeforce Women’s 145 pound belt last night. From the start of the fight Cyborg used her strength to bully Carano and dictate the pace. While Carano managed to return fire with her own strikes and even got mount at one point, it simply wasn’t enough. In the dying seconds of the round, Cyborg got top position on the ground and wailed away at Gina until the ref had to wave off the fight with 1 second remaining. Gina Carano takes a punch from Cris Cyborg - Image: Esther Lin / Showtime Sports It was a controversial ending for sine who felt that Carano should have been ’saved by the bell’, but she had covered up and wasn’t... [Read more]

Saturday night is a historic night for mixed martial arts as Strikeforce puts on the first female superfight in the history of the sport. Women’s MMA has been around for a long long time, but this marks the first time that a fight featuring females will headline a major promotion’s event. Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg - Image: Showtime Sports The fight in question is Gina Carano versus Cris ‘Cyborg’ Santos. Gina as a former muay thai fighter turned mixed martial artists who some of you might recognize from her time on the new American Gladiators show where she played ‘Crush’. Cris Cyborg is the most feared female in mixed martial arts … a muscled beast of a woman from Brazil who has won five of her seven... [Read more]

The UFC has just announced that it will be replaying UFC 100 for free on SpikeTV this Saturday. The historical event occurred just over a month ago on pay per view and featured three major fights: Brock Lesnar versus Frank Mir 2, Georges St Pierre vs Thiago Alves, and TUF coaches Michael Bisping vs Dan Henderson. UFC 100 - Image: UFCUFC 100 was the best selling UFC event ever with over 1.7 million buys and a 5 million dollar gate. Even if you already saw the event, there’s still a reason to watch: three preliminary fights from the event that were not originally shown will make their debut on the Spike broadcast. So what’s the occasion for the UFC to be so nice about giving away it’s content? Rival promotion Strikeforce is running... [Read more]